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Asked: 2026-06-09T08:30:05+00:00

I would like to have a service that stores a users password safely while

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I would like to have a service that stores a users password safely while also allowing my code to retrieve that password and authenticate the user for an external API. Any ideas?

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    What I would do is the following:

    1. Take the clear text password
    2. Use a salt
    3. Hash the password and the salt using SHA-1 or similar hashing algorithm
    4. Store that hash as the password into a datastore

    When the user then authenticates redo step 1-3 and instead of store the password in the datastore, compare it to the hash in the datastore, if you have a match, then the password is correct.

    OR, have the user sign up and get a “passkey” which is a random sequence of characters, have him/her hash it once (no salt) and send it to your API, then rehash it with the salt and compare that.

    It all depends on how sensitive it is.

    //JaggenSWE

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